via Robert Hastings • Articles — Citizen Hearing on Disclosure.

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A history of UAP research at CNES

From Gepan to Geipan

In 1977, the CNES Director General set up the Gepan* research group to pursue studies initiated by a CNES engineer as a personal project.

Its mandate was simple: conduct research into UFOs (as they are commonly called). The group’s work was overseen by a scientific advisory board.

Gepan continued its research until 1988, when it was superseded by Sepra**. As well as UAPs, the new unit also monitored artificial atmospheric re-entries, i.e. debris from space missions falling back to Earth.

In 2000, Sepra refocused on the original mission of UAP research, albeit with limited resources. In 2001, the Director General requested an audit to help decide on the future of this CNES department.

via A history of UAP research at CNES – CNES.

CNES (Photo credit: f2g2)

However in 2005 there was a:

New unit, broader mandate(cnes.fr)

On the basis of the audit recommendations, UAP activities resumed with a
new CNES unit called Geipan, set up in 2005. This unit reports to
senior management at the Toulouse Space Centre and is overseen by an
independent external steering committee, which guides and monitors its
work.

Information is made available to the public here (in french).

Their news can be found here .

Richard Lelancette started translating reports into English on his blog.

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Please keep this in mind as you view these postings from the local and national press.

I’m afraid many also fail to follow-up on their initial leads, and many reports just remain forgotten.

Some incidents could be UFO balloons (please see:  http://dandare.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/ufo-balloons-what-are-they/ for more details, from a previous article).

There are also many other IFOs ( Identified Flying Objects they could be as well).

However, as i have said before, i am not sure what value they are to any UFO research.

Also for real-time UFO map from MUFON see here

Please be patient whilst i catch up on information/links/articles…. thank you.

1st

Airliner has narrow miss with UFO (written as a seperate article on this blog on may 1st)

Tiny ‘alien’ skeleton: Atacama Humanoid has human DNA (Photos) (examiner.com)

Update: The tiny “alien” skeleton found in the Chilean dessert a decade ago, has human DNA. Scientists say the six-inch skeleton dubbed the “Atacama Humanoid,” is not proof that extraterrestrial life or ET exists as “Sirius” suggested. Is the South American mummified creature a mutation?

The mystery behind the mummified remains began 10 years ago when the small skeleton was found.

A word to those who have not run into Steven Greer before, have a look at this article on him Steven greer . Basically, he’s in it solely for the money and it shows quite nicely what he has been up too.

2nd

First 1908 ‘Tunguska event’ meteorites believed found (NBC News)

Description: Trees were knocked down and burned over hundreds of square km by the Tunguska meteoroid impact. Note: This image is public domain, from the Leonid Kulik expedition in 1927 Source: http://www.astro.uwo.ca/~jlandstr/planets/webfigs/impacts/slide1.html (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In June 1908, a mysterious blast occurred above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska, Siberia, with 1,000 times more power than the Hiroshima bomb, flattening trees over an area roughly the size of Tokyo.

The most widely accepted theory is that a huge asteroid or comet (not a UFO or chunk of antimatter) exploded as it entered Earth’s atmosphere. But with just one death, few witnesses and no fragments nor any impact craters to study, scientists have been left to puzzle over what exactly caused the so-called Tunguska event.

3rd

Witnesses 1,200 Miles Apart Describe Same Giant Triangle UFO (Huffington Post)

Two UFO witnesses about 1,200 miles apart seemed to describe the same triangle-shaped object in reports two hours and two time zones apart on April 27, 2013, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

At about 9:59 p.m. ET, a Tennessee witness driving west along Highway 70 near Pleasant Hill reported watching “a large, triangular-shaped” object hovering over power lines in MUFON Case 47032.

The witness was returning from a grocery shopping trip in Crossville when the object appeared just above the vehicle.

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The bbc has an article mentioning that:

A passenger aircraft had a narrow miss with an unidentified object over Glasgow, a report has revealed.

The Airbus A320 was making its final approach to Glasgow Airport on 2 December when an object passed about 300ft underneath it.

The pilot of the aircraft said the risk of collision with the object, which did not show up on radar, had been “high”.

via BBC News – Airliner ‘had narrow miss with UFO’.

Also from news.com.au it mentions Airbus comes close to crashing with ufo over Glasgow .

the Sun has Passenger plane seconds away from collision with UFO .

Stv.com says  Passenger plane involved in near miss with UFO near glasgow airport .

There are quite a few reports from the media worldwide about this event, which took place on 2nd December 2012, many of which are just repeating the same information.

Not sure what to make of this sighting, however for now it is definately a UFO (it would help if we knew what type of radar was being used though-i believe there is both primary and secondary radar). Hope certain media do not try to hype this up too much, but i will not be holding my breath.

UPDATE  the daily mail has slightly more information here .

Despite an investigation, the UK Airprox Board – which examines reports of near misses – could not explain the ‘blue and yellow’  object which passed under the  Airbus 320.

The incident happened on December 2 last year over Baillieston, 13 miles east of Glasgow Airport, at around 3500ft.

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Britain’s Closest Encounters – Berwyn Mountain Mystery 1 of 3 – YouTube. from ufohunter.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

With the permission of the National Archives of Australia (on behalf of the Commonwealth Government of Australia), I’ve uploaded searchable PDF files containing over 10,000 pages of Australian UFO documents to a directory at the link below. Some highlights from that collection are given in the post below (article from IscaacKoi).

via Oz X-Files : “authenticated sighting”, “appear to be inexplicable”, USA “very interested”, page 1.

I have posted this link from Above Top Secret, just in case anyone has missed out on the ufo documents from Australia.

Also of interest is Fast searching of major free online collections of UFO journals .It mentions that

” It is now possible to download the journals published over the last few decades by several significant UFO groups (including NICAP, MUFON and APRO) and do REALLY fast searches of them ” [ extract from article].

Definately both worth checking out, as a wealth of information can be found there.

In the late 1990s, the UFO Working Group Netherlands (UWN) received an audio cassette with a recording of radio communications between three British RAF Tornado jet fighters and Dutch military air traffic control. The UWN released this recording on the previous version of this web page on December 17, 2005. In the recording, pilots of two Tornado jet fighters report to Dutch military air traffic control that they are observing a large unknown flying object. From the communications we gather that the aircrews (the Tornado is a two-seater) were unable to identify the object and that the military air traffic controller was unable to find it on radar.

via The Tornado Case (1990).

If you follow UFO investigations in the media and wonder are the reports solid, well investigated and as clear as they seem then consider there may be a problem area you need to know about.

Arguably, two of the greatest problems inherent to the field of Ufology today are that approaches to studying UFOs are 1) not keeping up with available technology and 2) are perhaps, at times, being influenced negatively by technology more so than in ages past. I’ll expound further on precisely what I mean by this in a moment, but first I must pose the very necessary question: will the serious study of UFOs continue to live up to the challenges of our rate of technological growth, or will the study of more advanced intelligence than our own become hindered by these advancements?

via Why the UFO Community Must Step Up Its Game | David Reneke | Space and Astronomy News.

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Please keep this in mind as you view these postings from the local and national press.

I’m afraid many also fail to follow-up on their initial leads, and many reports just remain forgotten.

Some incidents could be UFO balloons (please see:  http://dandare.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/ufo-balloons-what-are-they/ for more details, from a previous article).

There are also many other IFOs ( Identified Flying Objects they could be as well).

However, as i have said before, i am not sure what value they are to any UFO research.

Also for real-time UFO map from MUFON see here

Please be patient whilst i catch up on information/links/articles…. thank you.

16th

17th

UFO sighting (Milton Ulladulla Times)

The incident happened on Monday night of last week and was the second time in a week Mr Preston had seen UFOs.

The previous Wednesday he had been using his telescope to watch Venus about 10pm, when he saw two objects moving across from the north-north-west sky.

“I got a pretty good view of them,” he said.

“They kept going and going and going.”

Then on the Monday night he saw three objects “clear as a bell” flying low over Lake Conjola from the east-north-east between 9pm and 10pm, he said.

“They virtually came over my house,” he said.

18th

Pipeline-era politician joins UFO inquiry (Anchorage Press)

Though he claims to be a UFO skeptic, former U.S. Senator for Alaska Mike Gravel is one of six former members of Congress scheduled to join a staged UFO investigation in a Washington D.C. at the end of the month. The event purports to be an inquiry into a vast government cover-up. The promoters have rented the ballroom at The National Press Club’s Washington D.C. headquarters for five days beginning April 29.

UFO video shows fireballs in Cork, Ireland (openminds.tv) the same sighting will have ** after the heading.

A witness recorded approximately three minutes of video showing multiple fireball UFOs in the sky above Cork, Ireland.

The witness, YouTube user Naktis Ireland, uploaded the video to the video sharing service on March 16, 2013. But the title of the video indicates the incident occurred in December 2012. The video shows multiple bright balls of light appearing out of nowhere, and drifting slowly through the sky. The low-quality video is extremely jittery, but the witness explains:

I am sorry for the quality, it was filmed with a mobile phone. Ironically I had a Cannon EOS 500D with 300mm lens at home that could of filmed in 3000×3000 but I was afraid that they would disappear by the time I got my camera as this is a very rare opportunity so instead, used a phone to record as much as possible.

19th

Caboolture man claims he saw UFO twice, with unexplained lights in the sky making strange manoeuvres (news.com.au)

Caboolture, Queensland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mr Philip decided to speak out in the hope others may be able to corroborate the sightings.

The first sighting, he said, was of a bright white light travelling much slower and lower than a normal plane.

“It was so smooth and silent, just gliding through the air,” he said.

In the second sighting, Mr Philip said a similar light was travelling northwest before making a sudden 40-degree turn and then disappearing.

“I can’t explain it, it was awesome and I hope I see some more,” he said.

20th

21st

22nd

Aliens in Ireland? Mysterious UFOs caught on camera   **   (Daily express)

Despite the footage being filmed in December, the video was only posted online last week – causing many Internet aficionados to cry foul.

Writing on YouTube, the poster addressed concerns about the shakiness of his UFO video.

Have aliens really landed in Ireland? ‘UFO spotter’ posts mysterious video of glowing fireballs floating over Cork   **  (Daily Mail)

The aliens are coming and they’ve found the perfect landing pad, nestled among the emerald hills of an Irish suburb.

That is, if you choose to believe footage made by one UFO spotter who filmed the glowing sky-balls hovering over Cork, in southern Ireland.

But rather than share his discovery with the world straight away, the bashful space twitcher chose to sit on it for four months before posting a video on YouTube.

UFO Sightings: Experts Cautious after Sightings over County Cork in Ireland [VIDEO] ** ( ibtimes.co.uk)

There are possibilities this video is a fake. The lack of audio, for one, has led to doubts over how genuine the footage is. American horror writer Whitley Strieber posted a note on the video, on his Web site, and said he had the video analysed by three experts. Two of the three people consulted declared the tape was a hoax, while the third made no decision either way.

UFO Activities in Space (French Tribune)

Astronauts working aboard International Space Station are claiming to have seen a blinking entity or object, which they said was a UFO activity that took place on 18 and 19 April 2013.

Similar episodes have been reported by Scott C. Waring, who edits UFO Sightings Daily. The reports are talking about recordings of multiple UFOs and their activities that took place on the 18th and 19th of April 2013 and were recorded on NASA live cameras.

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26th

UFO seen in Mundaring (inthecommunity.com.au)

A SERIES of videos recorded on a mobile phone in the sky above Mundaring has reignited the debate on UFOs.

The recording, which shows a bright orb changing colours, is the work of a York man who details his experience exclusively in the next Tuesday’s Midland-Kalamunda Reporter.

UPDATE – VIDEO LINK: Did you see UFO at Bottesford area? ( This is Scunthorpe)

It’s not clear from the pictures what it is that might have been in the night sky.But a man from Bottesford says he noticed three objects in the sky last night (Wednesday, April 24).

He said: “The objects appeared to be on fire and were heading in an easterly direction towards Brigg.

“Are you aware if any other readers have had any similar sightings?”

The report follows a story of a possibly UFO sighting in Bottesford in March.

27th

Suzy’s shadowed by UFOs ( Sunshine Coast Daily)

She proudly announces that she has seen many UFOs in her lifetime – three sightings in Noosa, one in Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, and another two in the last month on the Sunshine Coast.

“My first sighting was in 1997,” she said.

“I was travelling to Coffs Harbour on a domestic flight, looked out the window and not far from me, a UFO dashed past, heading in the opposite direction.

Hundreds of UFO pics captured over Perth by Darlington man(Perthnow.com.au)

Rob Hartland has taken more than 20,000 photos of the day-time sky in the past six months and analysed them on his computer.

It began when he was taking photos of clouds to test out a new camera when he noticed a “smudge” that, when enlarged and enhanced, “had some structure to it, suggesting it could be some sort of craft in the sky”.

He says since then he has identified a dozen different UFOs including round, square and saucer-shaped craft, posting the photos to his website wispyclouds.net for extra-terrestrial buffs and sceptics to ponder.

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It is one of the most tantalising ever official accounts of an encounter with a UFO – deemed so credible it even convinced the government minister who investigated it.

Now, for the first time, the sighting of a flying saucer by an RAF fighter pilot and the subsequent high level inquiry it prompted can be revealed.

The sighting occurred in 30 July 1952, when Flight Sergeant Roland Hughes was on a training flight over West Germany in a de Havilland Vampire FB9.

via The UFO sighting that convinced a Government minister – Telegraph.